Here's an entire series of ASMR videos featuring baking and cooking and prepping and opening packages and so forth. The chef makes vegan goods, which depending on your world view may shade what you think of the cooking, but there is no doubt: it is so very pleasurable to watch the food get made. It's like a soothing… »4/01/15 7:21am 4/01/15 7:21am

One of the reasons I desperately want to time travel is to blow the minds of people in the past with just the simplest of things today. Imagine going back hundreds of years and baking this gold 24 'carrot' cake. With a few drops of food coloring and a few edible gold leaf sheets, I'd be hailed as the greatest… »3/25/15 4:55pm 3/25/15 4:55pm

I don't know how many cakes you have to make before having the skills to turn a giant mass of shapeless frosting into these symmetric sculptures, but I would guess between 100 to 2 billion. I just know that I like to watch these videos of Asian chefs making them to perfection. So relaxing. »1/15/15 9:06pm 1/15/15 9:06pm

If you are into cooking you probably know about silicone molds. If you are not, it doesn't matter. Just look at how they peel from the cake—and then how the cake gets build into various patisserie wonders. It's such a satisfying process. »10/24/14 7:21pm 10/24/14 7:21pm

I'll admit it, I was a doubter. When I saw this chocolate cake, I couldn't imagine it ever blowing my mind. Even when it started spinning, I didn't see what the hoopla was all about. And then the lights started flickering and all the chocolate pieces started dancing and moving in a complicated orchestra. »10/07/14 10:36pm 10/07/14 10:36pm

If robots ever destroy humanity, I hope I get killed by one of these cake decorator bots. I've been trapped in a recursive cake video dimension for the last 30 minutes and now I just want to lie down under one of them and have it decorate my face until I die. Everywhere. While I stuff my face with cake. Enjoy! »8/13/14 7:40pm 8/13/14 7:40pm

Just when you thought that mankind's genius could stretch no further, a solid year of research has given birth to a new apex in cake innovation. Friends, say hello to Spray Cake, the Harvard-bred cake batter in a can. »7/18/14 11:49am 7/18/14 11:49am

The way we cut cakes is wrong. That old traditional style of slicing a wedge and leaving the rest? It ruins the cake and creates imperfect slices. How can we cut it better? How can we eat more delicious cake? Numberphile says the most scientific way to cut a cake is to slice an entire strip from the middle of the… »6/17/14 9:23pm 6/17/14 9:23pm

If you're like most people, when you cut a cake you simply take a wedge out, making two lines from the edge straight into the center. But there's a far, far better way to take a slice, based on maths that's over 100 years old. »6/17/14 9:22pm 6/17/14 9:22pm

This is not something you can buy yet but—come this summer—you may be able to order Boston Pizza's Pizza Cake, a clear sign of the demise of our civilization, which apparently has been replaced by a bunch of reckless individuals with no sense of what's good or evil. »4/17/14 8:00pm 4/17/14 8:00pm

This is gross and old, but it made me hungry. Also, it makes sense: some students made this giant grasshopper cake to celebrate a new book that promotes the cooking of insects as one of the most efficient, greenest ways to feed humans. »6/03/12 3:30pm 6/03/12 3:30pm

I call it the Stealth Cake. Massively caloric, 8-layer chocolate fondant firepower disguised in a low-profile fake asparagus fuselage. If you're into cakes as much as we are, you can learn how to make one here. [Sweetpolita—Thanks Karl!] »9/14/11 9:40pm 9/14/11 9:40pm

Bitcoin is everyone's favorite made-up digital money, sure. But whadya know? Turns out there are plenty of legitimate brick-and-mortar shops out there that are ready to conduct awkward-yet-satisfying bitcoin transactions with you in the flesh. Have a look: »6/30/11 3:30pm 6/30/11 3:30pm